Farlell RPG

Introduction

Farlell RPG is a game-world I'm designing for my family's D&D nights.

Feel free to use it as a basis for your own tabletop games, but please contact me (User:Ezrec) if you want to use the world concept for commercial purposes.

There are two sides to this wiki: Farlell RPG and Farlell Spoiler.

Game Masters should look in the Farlell Spoiler section, and players should ignore it. It'll definitely ruin the game for you from the very first paragraph.

In general, monsters, artifacts, and places will have a Farell FooBar Spoiler link, which is for GMs.

General Information

The setting is a terrestrial style planet.

Astronomical Information

• Three moons - one approx the size of Earth's moon, two others the size of Mars' Phobos and Deimos captured asteroid pair.
• Two stars - one yellow, main sequence primary star, with a second binary companion with an apparent brightness of Earth's planet Venus.
• 'The Pit In The Sky' - an unusual astronomical artifact that appears to be in planetary orbit, and occasionally obscures a single star, or will look like a small back dot crossing the moons.

Terrestrial Information

• 23% oxygen, 74% nitrogen, 3% trace atmosphere
  • Trace atmosphere is very high in neon, and beautiful orange lighting and will often illuminate entire cloud layers during electrical storms.
• Primarily silicon crust, with a very high heavy metals content.
  • Gold, silver, and other "precious" metals are actually very common in Farlell (similar to the abundance of Iron on Earth)
• Slightly smaller in size than Earth (0.90 Earth radii)
• Slightly higher gravity (1.14G) than Earth (due to higher density)
• Mountains are, on average, lower than on Earth

Vegetation

Evolution has responded to it's environment, and has produced vegetation similar to that of Earth.

• Chlorophyll based photosynthesis.
• Most plants store energy as sugar and starches
• Most land plants chelate the heavy metals in the soil, and eliminate them as waste.
  • Some examples are heavy fruits (which appear on the tips of branches) and glitter dust (which collects on the underside of leaf surfaces for some grasses).
  • See Farlell Economy#Vegetation for a discussion on how humans use the plants.
• There are a number of carnivorous plants in Farlell, ranging from the small and dainty Farlell Fly's Folly to the enormous Farlell Paradise Island.

Aquatic Life

• Alga (very similar to Earth alga)

• Jello (similar to in bodyplan to Earth Jellyfish)
  • Exclusively surface floaters
  • Large quantities of chlorophasts
  • Underside is covered in a foul tasting, sticky mucus
  • Filled with hundreds of tiny, extremly sharp 'bones' made of Iron tubule meshes.
    • Think 'tumbleweed covered in ballistics gel'
  • Chromataphores - usually closed, but put two Jello together, and you have quite a show!
  • Small eyes encircling the body, large eye on top.
  • Unusually large amount of neural tissue - over 50% of the body by volume!
  • Slow growing, long lifespan
    • Millions on young spawned every year - most are eaten by predators before their mucus and interior tubules develop.
    • Young are about the size of a dime, adults over 3 feet wide.
  • Many species of Jellos are raised

• Tubla (fish analogues)
  • Body plan is a tube with no backbone
  • Ring-shapes bones (make of stiff iron metal tubule meshes, not calcium cystal lattices)
  • Each 'segment' has it's own gills, heart, nervous system, and sensory organs
  • 'Jet propelled' via internal cillia

• Night Sheets (shark analogues)
  • Major ocean predators
  • About 3mm thick.
  • Black top and white bellies
  • The 'belly' is the digestive portion, covered in millions of polyps.
  • Eats prey by enveloping it.
  • Complex, extremely fine metal bone structure allows the sheet to be resistant to punctures, and yet fold to any configuration
    • Fishermen catch these, let the flesh rot off, then use the interlocked bone meshes as nature's own chainmain.
  • Multilayer Night Sheet Armour is worn by many open sea fishermen.

• Many many more!

Terrestrial Animal Life

There are four main animal phyla on Farlell:

Glitter Bugs

These shiny animals fill the same niches as the Insect phyla on Earth.